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From the New York Prohibitionist.
The Wreckers.
BY GEORGE S. BURLEIGII.
Hark to the roar of the surges!
Hark to the wild wind’s howl!
Soe the black cloud that the hurricano urges,
Bend like a maniac's scowl!
Full on the sunken lee-ledges,
Leaps the devoted barque,
And the loud waves, like a hundred sledges,
Smite to the doomed mark.
Shrilly the shriek of the seamen
Cleaves like a dart through the roar ;
Harsh as the pitiless laugh of a demon
Rattles the pebbled shore!
Ho! for the life-boat, Brothers!
Now may the hearts of the brave,
Hurling their lives to the rescue of others’,
Conquer the stormy wave.
Shame! for Humanity’s treason ;
Shame to the form we wear ;
Blush at the temple of pity and reason
Turned to a Robber’s lair 1
Worse than the horrible breakers,
, t . Worse than the shattering storm,
See! the rough-handed, remorseless Wreckers,
Stripping the clay yet warm Y
Plucking at Girlhood’s tresses
Tangled with gems and gold;
Snatching love-tokens from Manhood’s caresses,
Clenched with a dying hold.
What of the shrieks of despairing!
What of the last faint gasp ?
Robbers! who lived would but lessen your sharing;
Gold ! ’twas a god in your grasp !
Boys in their sunny-brown beauty,
Men in their rugged bronze,
Women whose wails might have taught wolves duty
Died on the merciless stones.
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Tenderly slid o’er the plundered
Shrouds from the white-capped surge ;
Loud on the traitors the mad ocean thundered,
Low o’er the lost sang a dirge !
Woo! there are deadlier breakers,
Billows that burn as they roll,
Flanked by a legion of crueller Wreckers, —
k Wreckers of body and soul!
Traitors to God and Humanity,
Circes that hold in their urns
Blood-dripping Murder and hopeless Insnnity,
Folly and Famine by turns.
Crested with wine redly flashing,
Swollen with liquid fire,
How the strong ruin conies, fearfully dashing,
High as the soul walks, and higher!
Manhood, and Virtue, and Beauty,
and the sunny-haired Bliss,
With the diviner white Angel of Duty,
* Sink in the burning abyss.
What if the soul of the Drunkard
Shrivel in quenchless flame !
What if his children, by beggery conquered,
Plunge into ruin and shame ?
Gold has come into the wreckers,
Murder has taken her prize,—
Gold, though a million hearts burst on the breakers,
Smothers the crime and the cries.
Rum and Shipwrecks.
Or the thousand and one disasters that take place
at sea, hurrying hundreds and thousands of human
souls into eternity, rum foots up a fearful catalogue.
Judge McLean, of the United States Court, recent
ly stated, in giving his judgment in a maratime case,
that “ rum had sunk more seamen than all the tem
pests that ever blew.”
This reminds us forcibly of an enterprise to run an
‘‘opposition line of steamers from New Orleans to Gal
veston, Texas, being broken up by this cause. The
first ste.mer, and a splendid one, was actually built
and put on the line. With a gay party on board
from Galveston, in high glee, they sailed down to
Matagorda Bay, on their return the vessel was wreck
ed, end all through intoxicating liquors. Down went
the enterprise, and we lost all the benefits of ibis new
line. And yet it is considered very fanatic al by many
c jto pass a stringent prohibitory law, against this hu
man destroyer. Rumsellers’ rights are con>:dered
superior in the estimation of some of our practical
!)fbotcb to Ccmpcrancf, literature, General Intelligence, anti the latest fletos.
temperance men, to human interests and human
rights, that are hourly trampled upon and crushed
by the runt fiend. This fiend cannot bo banished
even from the Navy, notwithstanding the decision of
Judge McLean. As the vote in tho last Coifgress
will testify.— Southern Organ.
Chronicles. -Chapter V.
1. And it came to pass after these things, that the
Grog-sellers, when they saw that the paoplc wen
dote rmined to stop thorn from vending their poison, |
began to tremble and quake with fear.
2. And being sore amazed at the great change
being wrought throughout tho land by the Sons and
their co-workers in the Tcmparanco Reformation,
they looked at each other aghast, and said :
3. Behold tho day of wrath is near at hand, that
dreadful day when we shall bo cast, with those of
our household, out front the land, when the fires of
the Distillery shall be quenched, and tho smoke
thereof shall cease to ascend into Heaven as an offer
ing of sweet incense unto the God of our people, even
Bacchus.
4. And when we shall no longer bo allowed to
sacrifice unto our God, even Plutus, the blood of our
fellow men: and when the sweet music caused by the
jingling sound of gold and of silver, as a price there
of, shall no longer salute our ears.
5. For behold we have seen tho pcoplo, yea even
the mighty sovereigns of the land, rising in tho nia
josty of their power, and armed with the fearful
sword of Justice and Truth, they are now with an
unbroken Iront marching against us with rapid
strides.
6. Yea, even now, we hear the terrible sound of
their feet, whose tread like a great earthquake caus
eth the lofty spires of our temples to rock to and fro iu
the air, and the pillars thereof to totter and tremble
to their foundations !
7. Even while we speak we hear tho great fiat of
the people pronouncing on.- doom, which goeth up
from all parts of our land in tones of thunder, sovine:
8. Behold the time hath come when wo will no
longer bear the burden of Intemperance and its
thousand attendant evils, neither will we any more
wear the yoke, or bend the knee to tho tyrant
Alcohol.
9. But seeing the blighting effects of the traffic in
intoxicating liquors in our midst, and feeling the
weight of this curse, wc will now in the strength of
our right, and by the supremo authority vested iu us
as the sovereigns of the land, abolish this traffic from
among us forever.
10. Behold now this is not the language of a few
fanatics only, but the united voice of tho sovereign
people themselves, and we know, also too well—that
whatsoever it plcaseth them to say, that shall surely
be law r :
11. Therefore, seeing that if wo longer remain, we
shall be driven out by the righteous decree of an in
censed people, we will gather together our household
goods, (even as those of our pcoplo did who dwelt in
the land of Maine,) and get us up out of this land:
12. For we know of a certainty that we shall be
no longer permitted to barter the blood of our fellows
for money, and that our coffers will therefore bo no
more filled with precious metals, with gold and with
silver.
13. And the Grogsellers being wrought up to a
state of despair, rent their garments from about them
and cried out in tho bitterness of their souls saying:
Accursed be those who would deprive us of our
rights; not least among which is that of wringing
tears from the widow and orphan, and fattening
upon their blood!
14. Now about this time, behold there arose tip
among them a certain Judge, who comforted them
greatly, and spoke unto them in this wise saying:
15. Fear not my beloved people, for behold 1 too
have seen with deep and heartfelt anxiety the flow
ing of the great tide of Temperance, threatening
every moment to sweop you my dear friends from
off the land, thus depriving us (which God forbid
that they should do) of our good liquors.
16. Deeply impressed as I am now with the peril
ous situation in which you are placed, and feeling a
great interest in your future welfare, I have con
cluded to sacrifice’my private interest (?) and tender
to you my services: yea I, even I, am ready and
willing now to be both your counselor and Judge.
17. Say therefore unto thy friends, and unto my
friends, who are scattered throughout the country,
thus saith the Judge: It is not suroly constitutional
for the people to pass a law abolishing the right to
trade in intoxicating Liquors;
18. For we know that such an act would be con
sidered as a sumptuary law, and could not therefore
be enforced.
19. And when the Grogsellers heard this, they
with one accord shouted Eureka! and cried out
among themselves, saying: A Moses! behold a
Moses! a second Daniel! And they made the welk
in ring with their inirth and songs of joy.
20. And they went about to exalt this great Judge
above all othr Judges, saying: Lo! we have found
the one for whom wo have been seeking, ami we
know of a certainty that there is not another such art
! expourder of our constitutional rights in all the land
from the centfr to the circumference thereof.
21. And they filled their glasses and drank the
health of their great Advocate in swelling bumpers
of cbminpaignc, and of Whisky, an 1 of Brandy; yea,
they assembled themselves together in their saloons .
and in their litr-room-, and in their cellars:
32. And there drank, and feasted, and rejoiced ; I
and from er-fly morn till midnight’* dark hour they
made the we' Vic. ri'g vith !h< ir shouts of p' ** to,
this ff -PoreV* Judge; yea, this irmnaeul it*- Molt*,
this second Daniel was the burthen of their song!— j
Spirit of the Age.
PWIID, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, !855.
The Better Liquor.
A Rritißh newspaper reports two lectures delivered,
last Jane, in the city of Rxetcr, by John B. Gough,
Esq. A cotemporary netting these, says: “We have
only room for the following matchless passage, which
formed the peroration of His first address,” and then
follows word for word, “IVnl Denton's” impashioned ,
rhapsodv upon water — “amatchless passage,” but no
more belonging to Mr. Gough than it does to the j
Chief of tho Cannibal Islands. That it appears as a
part of Mr. Gough’s speeches, is probably no fault of J
bis, but the blunder of the reporter, who mistook s
quotation for an oatburst ifforiginal eloquence. Mr.
Gough has too opulent a mind, aflcl too honest a one,
to desire to shine in borrowed splendors; so in res- 1
toring this passage to its rightful owner, wo arc doing J
what Mr. G’s nice sense of justice will approve.
After having said so much, we must quote the pas
sage referred to; it can scarcely be new to our read
ers. It occurs in a sketch by “Charles Summerfield,”
(an assumed namo probably,) which was published
some six years since in one of our western journals,
and has been vary generally oppiod bv the newspa
pers of the day. A few words may he necessary by
way of preface; Paul Denton, an eccentric, but elo
quent missionary of the Methodist F.piseopal Church,
advertis and that, on a certain day, there would be “a
barbecue camp meeting”at the ‘Double Spring Grove,’
at which the people might expect, “a r ood barbacue,
better liquor, and the best of gospel.” A large gath
ering was the consequence of this singular announce
ment. The barbecue was provided, tho people seat
ed to partake of it, when one, known as a ferocious
rowdy, duelist and lyncher, and whosocmed bent upon
having a quarrel with somebody, cried out in an in
solent voice—“Mr. Paul Denton, your reverence lias
lied. You promised not only a good barbacue, but
better liquors. Where’s your liquor?”
“There!”, exclaimed the missionary, in tones of
thunder; and pointing his motionless finger at the.
Double Siting, gushing up in two strong columns,
with z soufid like a shout ofjoy from the bosom.
“And every where, it is a thing of beauty; gleam
ing in the dew-drop, singing in tho summer rain, shi
ning in the ice gem, when tho trees seem turned to
living jewels—spreading a golden veil* over the set
ting sun, or a white gauze around the midnight moon;
sporting in tho cataract; sloeping in the glazier; dan
cing in tho hail shower; folding bright snow curtains
softly above the wintry world, and weaving the many
colored iris, that seraph’s zone of tho sky, whoso warp
is the rainbow of earth, whose woof is the sunbeam
of heaven, all checked over with celestial flowers, by
tho mystic band of refraction. Still, always is it. beau
tiful, that blessed cold water. No poison bubbles on
its brink; its foam brings riot madness and murder;
no blood stains its liquid glass? pale and starving or
phans weep not burning tears in its clear depths; no
drunkard’s shrieking ghost from the grave curses it
in words of despair! Speak out, my friends, would
you exchange it for the demon’s drink, alcohol?”
“A shout liko the roar of tho tempest answered,
“No, no!”
“Critics never need tell me again, that backwoods
men are deaf lo the divine voice of eloquence, for I
saw at that moment, the missionary held the hearts
of tho multitude as it woro in the hollow of his hand,
and the popular feeling set in so irresistible, that even
tho duelist, Watt Foreman, flared not venture anoth
er interruption during the whole meeting.”
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Cause and Effect.
Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, has eight-hun
dred and forty-nine licensed punnneries. These are
the “C'aute,”
The “effect*,” in part, are—
1. Two hundred and four paupers, for 1853—a1l
but forty-nine of which were manufactured by ruin.
Os this number, 145 were foreigners, mostly Irish.
2. Commitments to prison fr the same period, 282:
of these 209 were foreigners; and the whole number
intemperate.
3. Convicts for tho year, 84: all intemperate: 61
foreigners.
4. The accompanying wretchedness of families,
profanity, Sabbath breaking, obscenity, demoraliza
tion of ehildn n, idleness, vagabondism, sickness, and
premature death.
The money-loss occasioned by all these—the least j
item in (he aggregate of evil—is, of course, principal- |
ly paid by the sober and industrious. Docs Govern- |
ment owe them no protection? —or do the assumed i
rights ofnitnscllers override and extinguish all others? j
In the “York Pennsylvanian,” of a recent date, we j
find some equally instructive statistics, a specimen of;
which we will give to the renders of the Prohibition
ist.
Prom January 1853 to January 1853, there wen
-57 prisoners committed to the County Jail—sl ol j
tliesn for crimes perpetrated under the influence ol
: intoxicating drinks.
From January 1853 to January 1354, the romtnit
| merits were 77 —65 of which woro caused by intem
perance.
The averago cost to the County of each criminal is
*l3B per annum.
The pauper tax of tho County, including the pro
ducts of the “County Farm,” is SB,OOO a year -three
\fourtht of which go to support the rum-made poor.
In the meantime, tho County derive* a revenue
fr-.m lic -nc- * of about SI,BOO per annum, to offset an
! expenditure, can—*d by drunkami'-'s,of $13,000! It
must be arknoWedgcd that this is a v ry brilliant li-
I nancirJ operaf’on!
Philadelphia, (according to, J * lge Fir.bsr, in hi r
‘■'•nt charge to the grand jury of P at city,; in i il/* a
i r/telly largely in tb Min *"t ff * ••> Vst’ m; <!<•• i- ,
■ ving a rev -n-i* of *!'*o, r; ; frw !!..- i.*-, *ti 1 prying
j for the crime and pauperism which liquor-selling <><■-
i casions, $170,593 per annum. And this, it should
b ‘ remembered, constitutes but two items of the many
iturned cost of intemperance.
Is it “fanaticism” to protest against suchjtnanrier
mg on the part of government? Rather, is it not fol
ly or knavery to impose these grievous hnvdens upon
i the people, for the benefit of a traffi • that sows the
| land with curses, ami blights the bodies and the souls
of its innumerable victims?— Prohibition let.
The Rumseller’s Only Argument.
The only argument against a prohibitory law is
j that of those who made silver shrines for Diana :
“Siis, ye know that by thisernft we have our wealth.”
The rum trade is productive of wealth. Wrre it not,
it would be denounced as mi internal abomination
J by the very men who now pursue it.
But so long as there is such a pecuniary tempta
tion to this traffic, men will pursue it, deny its wick
edness, and keep its deadly results out of sight.
And any attempt to break it up will he met by this
one argument, Ye know that by tho craft we have
our wealth. And wo know, too, that an argument
whose strength is measured by hundreds of thou
sands of dollars, is almost omnipotent. It branches
out in a hundred different directions, ami is mask and
by almost impregnable batteries. A thousand as
saults may have to be made and defeated, before the
fortress of such an argument, whose citadel is self
interest, rail he earned. “By this craft we have
our wealth,” is the watchword, all the world over, of
interest against benevolence, of oppression against
humanity, of profit against eonscicnco.
Selfish men pursue their selfish schemes, regard
less of God’s law, just so far as human laws will let
them. When the law comes in with absolute penal
ly, then and then only will they stop. If Go) ~,
men asked them—where is Abel, thy brother? their
answer is the grim, demoniac defiance of the first
murderer, Am I iny brother’s keeper ? This is pre
eminently true of tiie dealers in ardent spirits. To
all tho appeals of men of God, their only answer is,
By this craft we have our wealth. All possible con
siderations and appeals, all the powers of mighty,
overwhelming argument, demonstration and excite
ment, are met with this same inexorable answer of
tho demon of avarice, coupled with that of tho demon
of a murderous selfishness, Am I my brother’s keep
er, —Southern Organ.
“The Sacredness of the Domicil.”
This is one of the catch phrases of tho opponents
of the Maine Law, which means, in their mouth,
about tlu-same thing that “liberty, equality, and sretor
nily” meant in the mouth of Louis Napoleon, or that
“Democracy” moans in tho mouth of an ambitious,
office-seeking demagogue. It is simply a cheat—a
delusion —a lie. There is no principle or provision
of tin Maine Law that endangers “tho sacredness
of the domicil,” or interferes in the least degree
with the natural rights of tho citizen. On the contra
ry, itsaim is tli more effectual protection of both.—
Where tho rum fiend works out its legitimate tenden
cies, net only tho domicil, but the humanity that it
should shelter, loses its “sayredness,” and becomes
the prey of the destroyer. The mission of the grog
shop is one of deadliest evil to all the sanctities of
home; and these, sofaras tens of thousands of our
citizens arc concerned, can bo preserved, only through
the legal suppression of tho anomalous and wicked
traffic in rum.
The “National Temperance Organ,” published at
Cincinnati, under the able editorship of S. F. Carey,
Esq., has some pertinent remarks upon this subject,
which we transfer to our columns:
“ You must he ranfut not to orer-ride natural and
inherent rights, and the sacrednrm of the domicil .”
“This is tho language of a political cotemporary,
an apologist for the liquor-seller, to those who are
laboring for a prohibitory law. What does he mean?
lias a man a natural and inherent right to s.-l 1
liquor? If so, then all the laws ‘regulating and re
training’tho traffic arc wrong. Natural and inhe
rent rights ought not to be abridged, but their fullest
and freest exercise should be guaranteed and secured
by government. Instead of licensing one and pro
hibiting ninety-nine from selfng liquor, laws should
be passed to secure to al! the natural right to engage
I in this trade.
“Our ri/ht to enjoy and defend life and liberty, is J
I natural and inherent , and it is the business of gov-!
j emm uls to protect us in its perfect exercise. God
I has given no man a right to inflict a w rong upon bis
j fellow man, and organized society owes it to God and
j his creatures, to interpose its arm to prevent its in
fliction, or if it has been committed, to punish and
restrain the wrong doer. Liquor sellers have never
claimed it as a natural light, but have always looked
i to tiie State to give them the right to make drunkards,
paupers and felons. The tiller of the soil never
| looked to the State for authority t> dispose of his
! surplus productions, nor does the Christian ask per
mission of the State, to worship God according to the
dictates of his own conscience. We call upon tin
author of the above paragraph, to tell us in plain
] English what he means.
‘“The sue red mss of the domicil,” is the very thing
we would maintain. It i the liquor seller who would i
rulhh -sly invade the -acredness of home, and sir ke
down tho-e who make it. a sanctuary. It is absurd to j
’ talk of ag r og--hop ns a ‘sacred ilomie.il.’ It. is a vile i
i trap to catch the unwary and the innocent. A den j
.of robbers might as w ell ask for the protecting arm |
of government, when : n outraged community sought t
to drag them forth to the bar of justice.
“A ht;o t)i s scoundrel robs r family of bread,
, murders the father, end when wo would enter by the !
authority of law, bis retreat, and seize Ins werpons
: of death, and arraign hint for bis crime, his friends
| cry bew are lest ye ‘override the sacredness of the j
. IIUMIINIt i
domicil.’ An honest man should blush to utter such
a sentiment.”— Prohibitionist.
Property in Liquor
The following is from the pen of the late Phoffssok
Stuart, of Andover, who, being dead yet speaketh.
\Ye commend his words to the nttentim of thought
ful men, os thoutt ranee ofone distinguished for log
ics! discriminati n, candor, and a cautious conserva
tism that, would shrink from the endorsement of any
novel dagms unhssit wasmanifrstly true. The opin
ions of such men are entitled to respectful conside
ration.
In reference tothat feature of the Maine Law which
provides for the confiscation of liquors kept for con
traband sale, he says:
“I know well what liquor dealers and distillers will
sy. They allego that their property is taken away,
and their means of living prohibited. Yery well;
but what is your property? It has been applied to
procure means to corrupt anddestroy the community.
Counterfeiters lay out largo smns to procure du * for
ata • ping coins and plates for imitating tlm best
bsnk bills.
‘ Arc their establishments to be protected! flip
erectors of these dreadful places (rightly eaffeo Hells)
expend very large Ruins, and adorn th : i mag
nificence. Must tho community respect this proper
ty? Even honest men erect s slaughter liottre ora
manufactory with noisome gases issuing fron it in
tho midst of a city or town. T* this property to ho
protected? Men adulterate medicines, and Congress
rises up teaman and forbids it not only by legislation
hut by activo iiispectingofficcrs. Are they not in the
right? But aru they consistent? There are hun
dreds of thousands of hogsheads of adulterated lip or
much of it containing rank poison, over which they
cxersis* no inspection, and submit it to no examina
tion. Is this a duo protection of the ignorant and un
suspecting part of the community? Scores of thou
sands die every year through tho influence of those
poisons. * * And has society no remedy against
all this? Maino only, has said they hare. She has
spoken with trumpet-tongue that which eternal truth
will sanction. Talk of property in the means of cor
ruption and destroying tho community? Why, then,
tho robber’s cave, and tho counterfeiter’s shop, w here
his expensive work is done, is property to bo respect
ed. Evon tho innocent and industrious man, if ho
undertakes a business which poisons the air and en
dangers tho life of tho citizens, is at once compelled
to relinquish his station. How can any man rightly
own that as proporty which sends forth pestilence
and death through a whole community? The [ilea
for property is idle. It i unworthy a moment’s re
gard.”—Prohibitionist.
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Prevention and Restoration.
The influence of a prohibitory law is two-fold—it
prevents multitudes from forming those appetites that
lend to drunkenness, and it contributes to the refor
mation of those already involved in the curse of ine
briety, by removing temptation from their path, tlniH
giving their higher nature nn opportunity to rise above
the brutish and the sensual. Os its latter effect, Con
neticut is now furnishing some most gratifying illus
trations; and these will naturally Increase asopposition
to the law subsides, sml evasions of it decrease under
its cfllc’enl administration. The Norwich (Ct.) Ex
aminer, of a late date, speaking upon this subject says:
“The effects of our law consist not simply in do
sing rum shops, preventing disorder, and crime, arid
emptying prisons and nlms-bonses. They arc al
ready felt, we believe, in many a family that has long
boon cursed with the evils of Intemperance. Many
a miserable abode has b on converted intoa.pl asant,
happy borne; many a heart-broken wife gladdened
by the reformation of her intemperate husband; many
a group of suffering children provided with tho corn
-9 rts of life. Indeed, wherever the influences of the
liquor traffic have been felt in years that aro past,
there the influences of this most excellent law are
f. It now; and the tendency is to prevent, and in a
measure to undo, tho countless evils which flow
from the traffic in ardent spirits. These thoughts
have been suggested by a particular cuse which wo
have had occasion recently to nollco.
“A man who for several years has not even enter
ed the sanctuary or attended any religious meeting
whatever, has been repeatedly of late in the house of
God on the Sabbath. For a long time neither him
self nor his family woro provided with clothing suit
ble to enable thurn to attend public worship. The
money that should have been used In purchasing
eloriiirig and other articles necessary to their comfort,
was expended for rum. But they aro all well dress
ed now, and we shall ho greatly disappointed if they
are not, iu future, habitual attendants upon tliu sanc
tuary.
“They are provided too with tho comforts of life,
and prepared for tho approaching winter, far belter,
probably, than they ever woro before.
“Who can witness one such case vn.bout lifting
bis heart to God, and thanking him for this ; -ohibi
tory law? Who can think of hundred.* i scat
ter'd all over tho .State, and not feel !m > .f called
upon to do all in his power to enforce an i pe •potu
ate this law?” — Prohibitionist.
t ST “Can’t suppress irrog-shops by 1< gislation.”
Down then, with the foolieli legislation of ages. Per
mit the butcher to place spoiled meat on the sham
bles, let the counterfeiter end gambler erect their
apparatus on the (street, ‘rid the hungry pedlar
open hi* f-.la'J# of obscene prints in public places.
Surely the moral eieie of the public will remove such
nuisances, —if that is insufficient, persuade the deal
ers to do better.— Spirit of the Age.
s JAMES T. BLAIN,
( PBINTER.